Tulip Fever

<p><b>'A gorgeous novel' <i>Mail on Sunday</i></b><br><b><br>From the bestselling author of <i>The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel </i>comes a thrilling story of power, lust and deception...</b><br><b><br>Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the grip of tulip fever.</b><br><br>Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception and a reckless gamble.<br><br><b>Now a major film starring Oscar winners Dame Judi Dench, Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz and adapted for the screen by Sir Tom Stoppard.</b></p>